Your Success in Commercial Property Begins With The Correct "Investment Vehicle"

Posted on 09. Feb, 2012 by Chris Lang.

BEFORE YOU purchase your next Commercial property, you do need to take some advice on which purchasing vehicle is right for you — because it's definitely not 'one size fits all'.

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National Office Market Shows Steady Improvement

Posted on 07. Feb, 2012 by Chris Lang.

Across the 26 markets depicted in the graph, demand was up 20% up and supply 30% down, on the 20-year average for the six-monthly period.

Total vacancies fell from 9.0% to 7.9% ? the lowest since January 2009.

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Commercial Property Needs to be Properly Managed ... THEN You Will Profit Handsomely

Posted on 02. Feb, 2012 by Chris Lang.

Once you have carefully chosen your Commercial property investment, and negotiated a great deal with the purchase ... you then need to turn your mind to ensuring you extract the most from it, during the time of your ownership.

Here are the Key Areas where your Property Manager needs to be really well versed.

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What Will Happen to Interest Rates
When The RBA Meets Next Week?

Posted on 31. Jan, 2012 by Chris Lang.

The general consensus seems to be that the RBA will further reduce rates by 25 basis points. But can this view be fully justified; and what does this mean for Commercial property investors?

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Commercial Property: Global Influence?

Posted on 23. Jan, 2012 by Chris Lang.

Last year saw $US400 billion in direct commercial property deals worldwide — which reflected an increase of 25% on 2010.

Australia's share of those deals was $6.5 billion in Office towers during last year — with 28% of those purchases being made by overseas buyers.

And this is expected to continue strongly during 2012.

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Commercial Property: What Makes for a Balanced Office Market?

Posted on 19. Jan, 2012 by Chris Lang.

EVERY capital city has both a CBD and suburban Office market. And as you can appreciate, keeping tabs on all the various suburban markets is almost an impossible task for most investors. As a rule of thumb, Office markets are said to the "in balance", when their Vacancy Rate lies between 5% and 7%.

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Is There a Credit Squeeze Looming?

Posted on 17. Jan, 2012 by Chris Lang.

The banks seemed to be protesting about the increased cost of offshore borrowing. And using that as their excuse for not wanting to pass on any future RBA rate reductions in full.

But are they really telling you the whole truth?

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Trusted Consultants ~ Part 4
Validating Your Purchase

Posted on 11. Jan, 2012 by Chris Lang.

You need an expert Building consultant to undertake a thorough internal and external inspection ? to confirm that everything is okay with the Commercial property you are about to purchase.

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Commercial Property: Things You Need to Know

Posted on 03. Jan, 2012 by Chris Lang.

Once you understand that Commercial property and residential property completely different, you then begin to understand how the commercial market actually works.

That's why these articles are intended to give you the real information — to help you come an expert on the subject. So let's start with doing homework properly.

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Success in Commercial Property Comes with Consistent Economic Growth

Posted on 22. Dec, 2011 by Chris Lang.

Melbourne's GDP has grown consistently over the past two decades. Perhaps that's the reason why the shrewd investors are now gravitating towards Commercial property in Melbourne.

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Commercial Property: ANZ Chief Reassures Shareholders of Australia's Strong Position

Posted on 19. Dec, 2011 by Chris Lang.

During every generation, there is generally a structural change in global economic activity. And right now, you are simply witnessing a shift the world's economic centre of gravity.

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